Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The recipe, a cup of baking soda, 3/4 cup of water, 1/2 cup of corn starch. Mix the ingredients in a sauce pan, over medium low heat, stirring until it's the consistency of mashed potatoes. *For a more detailed tutorial, go check out The Woodside Kitchen.

When the dough has cooled, roll them out and have fun creating different shapes using cookie cutters.

Then, get creative making some imprints with rubber stamps.

Fragile hearts seemed poetic.

Bake the ornaments for roughly 1 hour at 175 degrees. Once cooled, hang and decorate.

A wonderful reminder that the heart and love are both fragile and to be handled with care.

Though I love my fragile heart, to take a page from Mellywood's Mansion, I desperately wanted this to be a delight BUT the more my ornaments dried out, the more *fragile* they started to look. Of the 13 ornaments I made, only 1 was worth saving. All were cracked and some cracks even went clear through to the back of the ornament.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The only thing better than candy, in our house, is Band-aids. SO when it came time to decide what kind of Valentine's Grace would give out, taking into consideration all the food allergies and sugar adverse moms from her preschool class, Band-Aids seemed like a fun alternative to candy.

The only challenge, was deciding on what kind of card she would give out along with her Band-Aids. Thank goodness for PicMonkey because I was able to create my own.

Friday, January 25, 2013

I am so excited for our first *This is ME* self portrait linky party today! January's theme was 'simple moments'.

My simple moment from the past month, working out with Grace. Grace loves sitting with me, while I work out, it was one of those simple moments in life I wanted to capture to remember.

This is a perfect example of how
a self portrait doesn't have to show your face. A self portrait by definition has to
be taken by you and have part of you {even if it's just your hand or your feet} in the picture.

Though many of your expressed some hesitation about joining the challenge. I hope you'll be brave and get in front of the camera and preserve some memories, you never know what these pictures will one day mean to someone else.

A big thanks to Kayla for the being the first one to show off her self portrait. Here she is on an archeological dig, excavating a site in San Diego. Seriously, what a cool job and great self portrait.

So, now is your turn. Come out from behind the camera, capture a simple moment and inspire us all.

Let's get this party started...here are our linky rules:

There will be a link up here on the last Friday of every month this
year, and the linky tool will remain open to your submissions until the last Friday of the next month.

Please link back to the permalink for your *This Is ME* blog
post or flickr image, not just the general url for your blog or flickr
stream.

Linked entries must be to a blog post or flickr image of your recent self-portraits, not just any old photo. Your photo does not have to relate to the optional monthly theme, but it does need to be a
self-portrait.

Please do link back here to my blog either through a text link, or
with my button found below to help encourage others to participate and
grow our community.

And most importantly, be the encouragement you hope to receive and
help build our self-portrait community! Please try to visit a few of the
links of your fellow *This Is ME* participants and leave a nice
comment--it only takes a few minutes and you may be inspired by what you
see.

Well, that's it...now get linking everyone! I'll see you back here on
Friday, February 1st, for our February theme announcement, and in the meantime,
keep showing us your stuff in the flickr pool.

*If you are new to link parties, here's how it works:Click on 'click here to enter'A new window will open up with 4 blank fields to fill out.1. URL *Enter the url to your blog post, from your flickr account or from the group flickr page for This Is ME2. Caption or Title *Enter either your name or what you want your self portrait to be titled.3. EMAIL *Enter your email address. This will not be seen by anyone publicly. Name *Enter your name. This will not be seen by anyone publicly.4. Crop Image From Web *defaults to the URL you entered in step 1 From File * defaults to your computer From generic * will populate picture with a generic thumbnail.

A new screen will open up, filling with pictures from the URL location you entered. Select the picture you want to link up. You will be prompted to crop your picture.

Click to return to blogNow you've linked up and you can go visit the other brave people who have decided to share their self portraits.

On paper, I wrote out LOVED to figure out the spacing. Then, I folded the tee shirt and determined roughly where the center was and where I would place the lettering. I free handed and drew LOVED onto the tee shirt with a water solvable pen.

The nice thing with the water solvable pen, any perfectionist tendencies you have, if at first you aren't happy, apply some water {let it dry} and then try again.

Embroider the letters using a stain stitch. This basically means, work each stitch smoothly from one side of the letter to the other side of the letter. Lay each stitch as close together as possible (without pulling too tightly). The goal is that no fabric will show through between each satin stitch.

When you are done, use some water to dissolve any exposed lines. And admire!

And easy is an understatement. This is the perfect sewing project for first time sewers. You don't even need to make sure your lines are straight, as long as they connect one heart to the other, you've succeeded.

Heart head band and heart garland...though, if you ask Grace, she'll tell you the garland is her beautiful scarf.

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Adjusting to life since being laid off. When days used to consist of business deals and wearing heels. Now that I am a stay at home mom, in addition to taking care of my adorable little girl, I am learning more about cooking, crafting and creating while realizing that even though I am a stay at home mom, I can still wear my heels!

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